Floating Gardens (Inle Lake)
The floating gardens on Inle Lake in Myanmar represent a special form of agriculture on the water.
description
The floating gardens on the shallow lake are built from silt and the roots of the lush water hyacinths and anchored in the ground with bamboo poles. This swaying construction cannot be entered by humans, so the fields are cultivated from the boat. Several harvests per year of tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines and other vegetables are possible.
History
When the Intha ethnic group came to Lake Inle from the south of Burma a few hundred years ago, they were only tolerated by the peoples who had already resided there on condition that they settled on the lake and the reed belt around it. Since no land was assigned to the Intha, they developed "agriculture" on the water.
gallery
overview 
On the lake 
Fields in the lake 
One-legged oarsman 
Field work in the boat 
New bamboo poles 
Way to field work 
Farmhouse 
From the field to the consumer 
Pole forest
literature
- Wilhelm Klein: Burma (= Apa Guides. ). Nelles, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88618-991-0 , p. 243.
- Andrea Markand, Markus Markand, Martin H. Petrich, Volker Klinkmüller: Myanmar. (Burma) (= Stefan Loose Travel Manuals. ). 2nd completely revised edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6147-5 , p. 357.
- Martin Schacht: Instructions for use for Burma - Myanmar . Piper, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-27628-3 , p. 174.
